The Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l'Eurovision, OGAE, which is the most famous fan club of the Eurovision Song Contest, is holding its annual contest, the OGAE Song Contest. Each country's own section of the ODAE is participating. This year's contest is being held in Croatia.

The OGAE Song Contest has been held by OGAE clubs since 1986. The contest's rules are based on the Eurovision system of 1-8, 10 and 12 points, and all the juries are members of the OGAE fan club. The songs are also chosen by each country's own OGAE fans.

As the 2008 OGAE Song Contest was won by Croatia with their representative Franka Batelić with the song Ruza u kamenu, this year's contest is to be held in Croatia with 30 countries taking part. The songs that have been announced are:

France & Spain have won the OGAE Song Contest the most, winning four times each.

Each country performances, singer biographies and song information can be found on the OGAE Song Contest 2009's offical web page by clicking here. You can also listen last year's winner song Ruza u Kamenu below.

Mika goes Eurovision 2011 !
The Lebanese Television will announce in a few days the participation of Lebanon to the 56th Eurovision Songcontest in Germany.
MIKA will represent the first entry for the country on the Eurovision Songcontest.
In 2005 Lebanon had to redraw from the contest because of problems with broadcasting the Israelian entry.